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Viola Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.580783 Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 14 pages. David Warin Solomons #6097327. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.580783). Instrumental quartet based on my choral piece "The Choir in the Rain" which is a sequence of limericks written and set to music by the composer imagining the scene if a choir were made to sing in the rain, complete with colds, coughs, sneezes and fever.Original limericks:(Introductory words: pitter patter pom etc)Our conductor was trying to train our choir to sing in the rain  the music got wet and to our great regret we finally had to refrainSo all of us went back indoors and we sang from our poor dripping scores but the audience cheered as we persevered and demanded sev'ral encoresIt was then that we all started sneezing the basses were coughing and wheezing The altos in harm'ny sniffed not very calmly but the audience thought we were teasing The Sopranos then noticed their dresseswere shrinking and causing distresses the buttons they popped and the tenors they hopped as those buttons shot right past their facesIt seemed that the choir was dissolving and the room started slowly revolving we'd all caught a cough it near carrried us off as the fever we'd got was evolvingWe finally reached the last ditty in that chilly and rain sodden city oh we're told that in Spain it just rains on the plain but here it soaks both plain and pretty The pdf file contains score and partsThe sound sample is an electronic preview This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).